India’s image abroad

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Pew Research Centre

2023

Aug 31, 2023: The Indian Express

According to the report, 79% Indians have a favorable view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including 55% who hold a "very favorable" view.

A Pew Research Center study of more than 30,000 people in 24 countries, including India, found that 46% respondents worldwide had a favorable view of India, while a large majority of Indians surveyed (68%) said India’s global influence is getting stronger.

In 23 countries where respondents were asked about their view on India, 46% had “favorable” views, 34% held “unfavourable” views, and 16% didn’t know or refused. Among the countries surveyed, respondents from Israel had the highest favourability of India — 71% — followed by respondents from the UK (66%), Kenya (64%), Nigeria (60%), South Korea (58%), and the US (51%).

More people (51%) had unfavourable views in South Africa than favorable. The report comes days before New Delhi holds the G20 Summit on September 9-10. Pew said the survey was conducted from February 20 to May 22 among 30,861 adults.

According to the report, political ideology seems to have affected the way India is viewed, with those from the Right in Hungary, Australia, Israel and supporters of populist parties such as Greek Solution in Greece and Five Star Movement in Italy having higher favourability than those from the Left and non-supporters. In the US, however, the trend was reversed, as liberals had a favourability of 10 percentage points more than conservatives.

Among select countries where data has been collected since 2007, the percentage of people who held a favorable view of India has gone down in France, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, the UK, South Africa and South Korea, Pew reported. Favourability numbers, it found, went up in Nigeria and Mexico.

Among 12 countries where respondents were asked about confidence in Modi, Kenya had the highest (60%) and Argentina (12%), Brazil (16%) and the US (21%) were at the bottom.

In India, 79% had a favorable opinion of Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi got 62%, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had 46% and the party’s in Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury 42% favorable views.

When it came to how Indians view their country on the world stage, 68% said it is getting stronger, 19% said it is about the same, and 13% said it is weaker. Seventy-seven per cent of BJP supporters and 60% non-supporters said India is getting stronger. Among 19 countries where the question was asked, 28% agreed that India is getting stronger.

According to the report, 49% of those surveyed in India said the US and Russia are getting stronger, and 38% said China is getting stronger.